An Artistic Environment
When you enter the studio of Takashi Murakami in Japan, the walls are painted a bland, lifeless white. I’ve been told that it feels less like the working ground of a prolific, flamboyant and colorful modern artist–but more like the office of a mid-level business corporation.
Murakami has several artists that work in his studio with him, engaging in similar styles in a collaborative artistic environment. I’ve been told that during media interviews with the studio artists, they make little eye contact with reporters and keep comments about their craft to a minimum. Also, there is a PR professional sitting in the room to make sure no one says too much about their art.
Murakami has established a clear, extreme artistic culture for his studio. A culture that encourages–or forces–all and any emotion to be funneled through the canvas. If you choose to express yourself, all forms of one’s soul are to be released through strokes of modern paint and vivid colors.
And that’s it.
All expression becomes art, and the art becomes your craft.
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Thanks to Lisa Katayama for discussing this during her talk at the O’Reilly conference.
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